VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (August 2002)

Chapter 3, Error Messages
vxconfigd Error Messages
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a. Ensure that no vxvol, vxplex, or vxsd processes are running.
Use ps -e to search for such processes, and use kill to kill any that you find.
You mayhave torun kill twice tomake these processes go away. Killingutilities
in this way may make it difficult to make administrative changes to some
volumes until the system is rebooted.
b. Recreate the temporary database files for all imported disk groups using the
following command:
# vxconfigd -x cleartempdir 2> /dev/console
The vxvol, vxplex, and vxsd commands make use of these tempdb files to
communicate locking information. If the file is cleared, then locking information
can be lost. Without this locking information, two utilities can end up making
incompatible changes to the configuration of a volume.
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: Disk group group: Disabled by errors
◆ Description: This message indicates that some error condition has made it impossible
for VxVM to continue to manage changes to a disk group. The major reason for this is
that too many disks have failed, making it impossible for vxconfigd to continue to
updateconfiguration copies.Thereshould bea precedingerror message thatindicates
the specific error that was encountered.
If the disk group that was disabled is the rootdg disk group, then the following
additional error is displayed:
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: All transactions are disabled
This additional message indicates that vxconfigd has entered the disabled state,
which makes it impossible to change the configuration of any disk group, not just
rootdg.
◆ Action: If the underlying error resulted from a transient failure, such as a disk cabling
error, then you may be able to repair the situation by rebooting. Otherwise, the disk
group may have to be recreated and restored from a backup.
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: Disk group group,Disk disk:Cannot auto-import
group: reason
◆ Description: On systemstartup, vxconfigd failed to importthe diskgroupassociated
with the named disk. A message related to the specific failure is given in reason.
Additional error messages may be displayed that give more information on the
specific error. In particular, this is often followed by:
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: Disk group group: Errors in some
configuration copies:
Disk device, copy number: Block bno: error ...